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@mekkaokereke @Viss The thing that radicalized me at age 20 was cops hassling me all the time in my all-white neighborhood because I was a long-haired dirtbag. "Where you goin? HEY JAGOFF! TALKIN A YOU! You gotta job?"

But the thing that seriously, permanently radicalized me, activated me, was years of taking the bus downtown for work overnight and seeing cops on the sidewalk ignore me and manhandle black guys my age, sirens, lights, spread against the wall, screaming, frisking, handcuffs, clubs, guns, totally routine, all the time, not for anything, just a bullshit sadistic power trip. Same as with hassling me, except always on the very edge of deadly violence for the black guys.

Justice for Jonny Gammage! And Eric Garner, and George Floyd, and all the guys before and since murdered by cops for being black.

#blm #blacklivesmatter #justice #jonnygammage #georgefloyd #ericgarner #neverforget

50+ Music Feb 6

"I can't breathe" is a #slogan of the #BlackLivesMatter movement in the United States. The phrase originates from the #lastWords of #EricGarner, who was killed in 2014 after being put in a #chokehold by a #NewYorkCityPolice officer. A number of other #BlackAmericans, such as #JavierAmbler, #ManuelEllis, #ElijahMcClain, and #GeorgeFloyd, have said the same phrase prior to dying during similar #lawenforcement encounters. According to a 2020 report by #TheNewYorkTimes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRZWiqBHYaY

H.E.R. - I Can't Breathe (Audio)

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50+ Music Jan 8

"I can't breathe" is a #slogan of the #BlackLivesMatter movement in the United States. The phrase originates from the #lastWords of #EricGarner, who was killed in 2014 after being put in a #chokehold by a #NewYorkCityPolice officer. A number of other #BlackAmericans, such as #JavierAmbler, #ManuelEllis, #ElijahMcClain, and #GeorgeFloyd, have said the same phrase prior to dying during similar #lawenforcement encounters. According to a 2020 report by #TheNewYorkTimes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rrlPkd3VQ

H.E.R. Performs "I Can't Breathe" & "Fate" – Live | 2020 Roots Picnic Virtual Experience

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LA Progressive Dec 12, 2025

Frank Tyson - White supremacy uses police to choke the life out of Black bodies as they gasp for air. They sit on the backs of #GeorgeFloyd, #EricGarner, and #FrankTyson., https://www.laprogressive.com/racism/frank-tyson

Church of Jeff Sep 18, 2025

#Racism #Bigotry #BLM #BlackLivesMatter #AmericanHistory #SayTheirNames #TreyvonMartin #PhilandoCastile #GeorgeFloyd #SandraBland #TamirRice #EricGarner #BreonnaTaylor #DaunteWright #AndreHill #ManuelEllis #AtatianaJefferson #AuraRosser #StephonClark #BothamJean #AltonSterling

Fuck, there are just too many names...

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Audubon Ballroon (he/him)Sep 15, 2025

I can decorate for a party (#ClaudeReese)
I can ask a cop a question (#RandyEvans)
I can cash a check in peace (#YvonneSmallwood)
I can take out my wallet (#AmadouDiallo)
I can run (#WalterScott)
I can breathe (#EricGarner)
I can live (#FreddieGray)
I CAN BE ARRESTED WITHOUT THE FEAR OF BEING MURDERED (#GeorgeFloyd)

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD Jul 18, 2025

On #ThisDayInHistory in 2014, #EricGarner was murdered by #NYPD because they thought he was selling cigarettes. The excessive force used against suspects by US #police forces would shame any tinpot dictatorship. That we can't fix it is outrageous.

#ICantBreathe #BlackLivesMatter

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classical_dee Nov 15, 2024

#nyc In particular, they followed up on the cops involved in #ericgarner death and found - shocker - that they’ve been unaffected and have pulled in millions of dollars in OT. One of Garner’s cop critics was himself involved in a liquor racket scandal but is a deputy mayor https://indypendent.org/2024/06/eric-garner-10-years-later/

Eric Garner, 10 Years Later

What happened to the cops who killed him?

Historianspeaks Sep 15, 2024

Historianspeaks remembers Eric Garner whoo would have turned 54 today.
On July 17, 2014, Garner, an African American man, was killed in the New York City borough of Staten Island by Daniel Pantaleo, NYPD officer, after Pantaleo approached Garner about selling loose cigarettes, used a chokehold, an illegal restraining tactic, causing Garner to lose consciousness and die.. Video footage of the incident generated widespread national attention. #EricGarner #ICan'tBreathe #NYPD #PoliceBrutality